Well, it's fairly obvious, isn't it? It was put quite well in the post I quoted from Internet Stranger. Science generally is concerned with the domain...
Well, perhaps in the original. But it has become part of the rubric of atheism as a kind of symbol for something that might exist, but for which there...
That's the issue as I see it, in a nutshell. That's why, unlike @Janus, I think that Hume's 'is/ought' distinction is of great significance in ethics....
I am a moral realist by temperament, but I think you will find - actually, you are finding - that it becomes problematical as soon as the word 'object...
That's not something I would care to try and explain, or to expound on, but that is the classical understanding nonetheless. The problem is that we're...
Nirv??a is not non-existence, but the extinction of ego. The meaning is very similar to the Biblical injunction 'He who looses his life for My sake wi...
According to classical theology, God is not complex. I know that seems counter-intuitive, but it's part of the specification. Strictly speaking, never...
I'm really not. When I said 'with all due respect', I meant it. And I still think you're not seeing the point. You're re-interpreting the whole questi...
It is 'given' only in respect of those aspects of reality which are amenable to quantitative measurement; which is a key point. For Galileo, and those...
It's vague because it's assumed. It is the attitude distinctively characteristic of the advent of the modern period and the rejection of scholastic an...
Interesting perspective, thanks. Some rather strange turns of phrase: But I nevertheless think I understand what you're driving at. Right - I think I ...
Mainly, I presume, on the part of myself. That is a point I have often argued on forums, usually to complete incomprehension. In fact, my first post o...
It’s not something that Dawkins has forgotten - it’s something that he has never known. Like most people nowadays, he has no understanding of the clas...
No, it’s a symptom of where the world is at right now. ‘Things fall apart, the centre cannot hold’. The disintegration of shared meanings. Not really ...
I think ‘a domain of discourse’ is a better expression than ‘language game’. Words are used in domains of discourse in which they have shared meaning/...
Actually I will add one point. For someone whose spirituality was never built around the literal truth of biblical creationism, the fact that it's not...
He's not kidding - he's giving you the definition. That’s not quite the point, though. I think the ‘unitive vision’ of the ‘cosmos as an ordered whole...
That's what 'non-attachment' is for - detach from what is unwholesome or deleterious so as to unite with what is in your ultimate best interest 'where...
The origin of Western metaphysics is the Parmenides. And the point of the Parmenides is that the domain of sensory perception, our everyday experience...
Galileo ‘The book of nature is written in mathematics’ The meaning is crystal clear and fundamental to the modern scientific conception of nature. Fur...
I think you'll find Dukkha has moved on. Thoughtful post, though. You will enjoy this movie trailer, Dreyfus is in it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
'Modelling the world' is your main concern, is it not? Your 'meta-philosophical project'? But does quantum physics have an intelligible form? It makes...
That quote I gave is well-known and verbatim. But, very interesting post, and I thank you for it, although there are points I would take issue with, t...
'Non-attachment' is also a basic theme of the New Testament: 'For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for my ...
I think I see the point - but not persuaded by it. But on the other hand, right now debate is raging in physics about the so-called multiverse - the d...
There is a lot of truth in that. A large part of the issue is that the tropes and imagery of the Bible hark back to an early agrarian, pre-industrial ...
But that is, I'm afraid, common or garden-variety materialism; in other words, only materialism accepts that. The basic problem here is indeed one of ...
The problem is that Carnap, and positivism generally, both tend towards 'scientism'. Even sophisticated neuroscientists who write on philosophy often ...
That is the point I would like to address. In Christianity, the emphasis is on forming a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. You feel this as a l...
Yeah there's nothing like silent meditation for hours on end to avoid looking at your own face. There's some truth in what Agustino is saying, because...
Are you a physical being, book-ended by birth and death - or something other than that? It might turn out to be important. That is why one of the infl...
Well, you did say that thoughts, language and reason 'exist in an ontological sense' as brain processes. But now you say that 'all we can do is experi...
Nihilism is a caricature of Buddhism which sadly some Buddhists unwittingly fall into. But nihilism is explicitly called out as an incorrect view from...
Islamic, Christian, and Hindu philosophers or teachers, might profoundly disagree about many points of doctrine, even on what is the 'nature of the di...
Since ancient times, there have always been atheist and materialist philosophers. However I think it’s fair to say that they didn’t comprise the mains...
By conducting experiments, for example, by rolling two spherical weights of different mass down an incline to see whether the heavier one accelerates ...
The point I was trying to make, was that the word ‘metaphysics’ was coined in relation to Aristotle’s work in particular - and this is an historical f...
The belief that the Universe is essentially mindless or lifeless matter~energy is profoundly different from both Christian and Islamic beliefs. Even t...
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